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Episode 75 -- Friends
Advocacy Teams
Recorded
04.15.2017. The Friends Committee on
National Legislation is a non-partisan Quaker lobby that
dates back to 1943. Speaking for its constituent Quakers, or
“Friends,” the group leverages its nationwide network to
advocate “social and economic justice, peace, care for the
Earth, and good government,” according to its statement of
legislative policy. In this episode, E. Garnet Fay,
the chair of the Public Policy Committee of the Illinois
Conference of Churches, and David Kelm, a
non-Quaker “friend of a Friend,” discuss the FCNL and its
efforts to craft peace-oriented policy, including a recent
focus on cutting Pentagon funding.
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May -- June, 2017
Contents
The
Hoi Polloi United by Leonard Pierce
The annual
Debs-Thomas-Harrington Dinner is one of Chicago DSA’s oldest
and most honored traditions, and it closed out its sixth
decade in high style on Friday, May 19th, 2017.
Taxing
Sin or Bringing the Poor to HEAL? by Leonard Pierce
The Illinois Public Health
Institute’s Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity is currently
backing House Bill 2667, known as the HEAL (Healthy Eating,
Active Living) Act. The bill would impose a tax of a penny per
ounce on soda and other sugary drinks, including powders,
syrups, and beverages sold at retail level. The tax would be
imposed on distributors, and the majority of funds would be
earmarked for the Illinois Wellness Fund.
Chicago
DSA Mobilizes by Bob Roman
It was just days before our
annual Debs-Thomas-Harrington Dinner when we got an email from
a DSA member on the staff of the Communication Workers of
America. Union members at some AT&T divisions had been
working without a contract for up to a year and wanted to end
management stalling on negotiations. Another sore point was
the frequent outsourcing of work to overseas call centers. To
that end, they were declaring a three-day strike for that
weekend. Could we help with the picket lines in Chicago?
DSA
in the News compiled by Bob Roman
Twelve
Things You Should Know About LST by Bill Barclay
Lessons
from the 1937 Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre by
Susan Hirsch
On the South Side of
Chicago, members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
and its retirees commemorated the 80th anniversary of the
Memorial Day Massacre. In 1937, as the Steel Workers’
Organizing Committee (SWOC) attempted to unionize the steel
industry, ten strikers were killed and scores wounded when
Chicago police opened fire on peaceful protesters at the
Republic Steel Plant. Both the reasons the massacre occurred
and the response to it suggest to me the magnitude of what has
to be done today to reverse the decline in our nation’s
minimal protections for the life and well-being of our
citizens.
Upcoming
Events of Interest
New Ground 172.1 --
06.21.2017
0. DSA News
Save
the Date
Meet the New DSA
DSA
in the News compiled by Bob Roman
Net
Neutrality Is Essential to Online Democracy
Rose Radio
Solidarity Fund
1. Politics
DSA
at the People's Summit by Charles Austin
2. Democratic Socialism
Love Is the Only Law
Fear of Hygge
3. Upcoming
Events of Interest
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